NET RESULTS MARKETING - Key Persons
Colleen is an event management professional with over 30 years of proven success in the development, management and execution of high-profile events and corporate partnerships, locally, nationally and abroad.
Colleen Hopkins is an event management professional with over 30 years of proven success in the development, management and execution of high-profile events and corporate partnerships, locally, nationally and abroad.
She spent 20 years as the Director of Special Events and Assistant Tournament Director at the International Tennis Hall of Fame managing the Hall of Fame's stop on ATP World Tour and a vast array of other professional tennis events, concerts, and special events around the world.
In 2012 she founded Hopkins Events LLC, a special event agency with a focus on event management and operations, sponsor activation and client hospitality, where she frequently partnered with Net Results Marketing on events such as the US Open and with our top private clients. Other events and clients she worked with included the Newport International Boat Show, Volvo Ocean Race, and newportfilm.
Jeremy's event management, marketing and sales experience is extensive in the sport and culinary worlds. His range spans from complete turnkey creation and production of major arena events to small corporate outings and VIP experiences as well as sponsorship sales for events, venues and other properties, and celebrity endorsements and appearances.
Jeremy Steindecker is the Founder and President of Net Results Marketing, a full-service sports, culinary and entertainment marketing company.
A 1988 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Steindecker started the foundation for what would become Net Results Marketing while a junior in college after approaching the University's athletic department about selling sponsorships for the Penn Relay's, the world's oldest and largest amateur track meet. After bringing in three major partnerships and managing the event's VIP hospitality room in that first year, Net Results Marketing was incorporated the following year, and upon graduation, the Penn Relays became the company's first official client. In 1989, Steindecker also became the youngest general manager in the history of World TeamTennis, the professional tennis league co-founded by Billie Jean King, when he took over the reins of the New Jersey Stars, overseeing all operations of the team from recruiting players to marketing, tickets sales to sponsorship.
Steindecker's event management, marketing and sales experience is extensive in the sport and culinary worlds. His range spans from complete turnkey creation and production of major arena events to small corporate outings and VIP experiences as well as sponsorship sales for events, venues and other properties, and celebrity endorsements and appearances. Some of his major accomplishments include:
As agent for Martina Navratilova, negotiated major endorsement deals with Under Armour, the Juiceman™ juicer, and a line of fitness products with Spri. He also acted as her literary agent and negotiated a deal that was twice as large as a major literary agent had estimated for her book, Shape Your Self.
Sold a major three-year sponsorship deal for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City to a financial services firm.
Negotiated commentating deals for Martina Navratilova and Tracy Austin with the Tennis Channel
Secured a multi-year title sponsorship with a global generic and specialty pharmaceutical company for World TeamTennis' charity event Smash Hits. As manager of the event, oversaw fundraising that exceeded over $1 million in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, a record amount for the 20 year-old event. The sponsor subsequently became the Title Sponsor for the entire World TeamTennis professional league the following year.
Ran the most successful event in the history of the Virginia Slims Legends tour with the Virginia Slims of Baltimore featuring Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, and Tracy Austin, four former world #1's.
Designed and implemented a two-day tennis clinic for Lexus during their sponsorship of the US Open for over 600 guests featuring such Legends as Jimmy Connors, Billie Jean King, and Martina Navratilova.
Opened a culinary division in 2016 after meeting Chef Michael Solomonov at a charity event and shortly thereafter becoming his agent. Steindecker has represented Chef Solomonov, a 5-time James Beard Foundation Award Winner including Outstanding Chef in 2017 and Outstanding Restaurant in 2019 (Zahav), for appearances, private dining events and business development opportunities, including a deal with a major credit card institution to bring Chef Solomonov's dining experience and recipes to its exclusive cardholder lounge at the Philadelphia International Airport.
Steindecker lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children.
Job Titles:
- Culinary
- Director of Partnership Activation
Kerry is an event, marketing and sponsorship activation specialist with almost 20 years of experience in professional sports, non-profit organizations and the private sector.
Kerry Schneider Net Results Marketing as Director of Partnership Activation in January 2020 after more than two years as Head of Corporate Partnerships for the Washington, DC non-profit Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) where she secured and managed over $1.5 million in annual cash and in-kind sponsorships for FONZ's signature fundraising events and select education and membership programming.
Prior to her role at FONZ, she served as Chief of Staff for Vemo Education, a Virginia-based education finance start-up, after spending 12 years with World TeamTennis (WTT), the co-ed professional tennis league founded by Billie Jean King. Schneider served in various capacities throughout her tenure at WTT, including General Manager of the Austin Aces, General Manager of the Orange County Breakers, and led sponsor servicing and activation of national and regional sponsorships for the WTT League office for 10 years. She also spent two seasons in office and team administration for the New York Power of the Women's United Soccer Association and began her career as Promotions and Ticket Coordinator for ESPN commentator Pam Shriver's annual charity tennis event.
A graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, Schneider holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from the institution where she was also a member of the tennis team.
Job Titles:
- 2017 Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation
Chef Michael Solomonov is the executive chef/co-owner at Zahav, a modern Israeli restaurant that brings the authentic flavors of Israel's culture to Philadelphia and winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for "Outstanding Restaurant". He is known for his extraordinary skill at transforming simple foods into artful culinary masterpieces and is widely regarded as one of the country's top chefs and entrepreneurs. In addition to his duties at Zahav, Chef Solomonov is a partner in Federal Donuts, Dizengoff, Abe Fisher, Goldie, K'Far, and Merkaz, and the recently opened Laser Wolf - all in Philadelphia.
Some of Solomonov's accolades include:
2011 James Beard Foundation Award winner for "Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic"
2012, Food & Wine magazine named him among the country's top "Empire Builders," admiring his devotion "to reinventing overlooked cuisines".
2014 Eater National Chef of the Year
2016 James Beard Foundation Award winner for "Best International Cookbook" and "Book of the Year" for Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking
2016 James Beard Award nominee for "Outstanding Chef"
2017 James Beard Foundation Award winner for "Outstanding Chef"
Co-author of three highly acclaimed cookbooks - Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking, Federal Donuts: The (Partially) True Spectacular Story, and Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious
He has been widely featured and recognized for his many accomplishments, on television and in print, including: